Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[ChileG]

Musk, Ramaswamy eyeing federal remote work policies to help slash $2T from budget​

Musk, Ramaswamy eyeing federal remote work policies to help slash $2T from budget

Work from home policies came under fire from Elon Musk as he and Vivek Ramaswamy took their plans to reduce government waste to the floors of Congress Thursday.

abcnews.go.com

How does working from the office 100% of the time instead of 60% of the time save us tax money? It wasn’t explained in the article.

 

[gtyellowjacket]

How does working from the office 100% of the time instead of 60% of the time save us tax money? It wasn’t explained in the article.

Elon believes that work from home leads to workers not working. He believes coming to the office will promote more productivity.

 

[ZenMode]

How does working from the office 100% of the time instead of 60% of the time save us tax money? It wasn’t explained in the article.

What he said above+ knowing that people will quit.

 

[Calheel]

What he said above+ knowing that people will quit.

Yeah, it is that second one. It saves money because people quit (and Musk thinks they are valueless).

 

[ChileG]

Elon believes that work from home leads to workers not working. He believes coming to the office will promote more productivity.

And how much will that cut down the $2T they are promising to save?

 

[StrangePackage]

Trump has obviously offered a discount so that it saves money. Winning

I can't tell if you're joking, which is pretty funny, or serious, which is funnier.

 

[ChileG]

What he said above+ knowing that people will quit.

That will certainly solve our budget issues.

 

[aGDevil2k]

And how much will that cut down the $2T they are promising to save?

$50.

 

[gtyellowjacket]

And how much will that cut down the $2T they are promising to save?

I wouldn't think very much unless we were able to cut the number of salaries because less people can get the same amount of work done.

 

[ZenMode]

Yeah, it is that second one. It saves money because people quit (and Musk thinks they are valueless).

Or he just thinks people make choices.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

LOL. And yet a great many of his voters are conservative "Christians" who did indeed vote for him because they think he's some kind of "Christ's champion" who is going to save their declining religious denominations from those awful secular humanist liberals. Apparently whether Trump is a Christian "choirboy" or not depends upon which excuse or defense is needed as of that moment.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

He has his eye on Mt Rushmore again?

I'm wondering if he means we're going to put back up statues and memorials to Confederate leaders and generals and/or other proven racist or otherwise awful characters from our past. Maybe he'll get the NC GOP to put Silent Sam up again - given how in-your-face Trumpers are, they'd probably put it right back where it was.

 

[ZenMode]

That will certainly solve our budget issues.

I don't think anyone believes that will solve the entire budget issue.

 

[hedge]

"The entire budget issue," LOL...

 

[ChileG]

I don't think anyone believes that will solve the entire budget issue.

I don’t think it will even make a dent, but we shall see.

But, hey, if “get rid of 25% of the workforce at random” is the kind of thinking we need to solve the issue, then I can help out as well.

Don’t give Elon Musk any more tax subsidies. I probably just saved the government more money than Elon’s idea and I didn’t need a co-head to come up with that one.

Eliminate Space Force.

How about, reverse the tax breaks Trump installed the first time around? There, the job is over.
But that won’t happen. They are coming with cuts to your social security and Medicare, and then they’ll give themselves tax breaks and our deficit will actually increase. My prediction, anyway. But it remains to be seen.

 

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[nycfan]

Couldn’t pull off NC AG (thank goodness) but getting a plum role in the Trump Admin as a consolation prize.